In a Q&A that you can only read first and fully in the magazine, our flamboyant Dutch attacker talks extensively about the people who have been his guides, motivators and mentors on his journey so far – starting at home with the parents and grandparents whom, Josh says “just let me be me” in his early days, a time when “my life was just about football”.
As he got older and developed, he began to draw inspiration from other sportspeople – including footballers but also, in particular, from on the basketball court. Allen Iverson was the baller who really fired Joshua’s imagination and got him thinking, while his dog’s name Kobe will give you a clue to another star he looked up to.